Questions tagged [tutorials]
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RFC - Stack Exchange 2-minute intro
EDIT NEW! - taking into account the feedback from Robert and Jeff, here is a new, simpler, shorter 2-minute intro to Stack Exchange.
Stack Exchange 2-minute intro (choose full-screen option for ...
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Create a guided tour for new users
New users of a Stack Exchange site may not fully understand how the site works. For example, the user may not know how to vote, what reputation is, how to format a question or answer, or how to ...
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Optional interactive training for Stack Exchange features and privileges
One of the best ways to learn is by doing. The introductory messages for the review queues are nice (especially now that I have dismissed them all for every site I participate on), but text isn't the ...
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Stack Overflow tutorials/papers
Should Stack Overflow be expanded to include user-submitted papers and articles, which can then rake in higher scores based upon the quality of their work? Authors of tutorials/papers could be granted ...
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Review queue tutorial
Personally, I feel sometimes confused when rejecting suggested edits, which one option to choose between Invalid edit, Radical change or even Vandalism...
I propose, that it would be nice to have an ...
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Should Stack Overflow become the place to come to find good "getting started" tutorials? [closed]
There have been a few questions on here in the past about whether there is a place for tutorials/"how to" articles on Stack Overflow (for example, here and here). But I didn't see anyone make a ...
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A mini tutorial for those new to Stack Overflow [closed]
so I joined Stack Overflow last week to get one of my questions answered. However, it took me almost an hour to just understand how to form the question (formatting the code so that it would show up ...
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Why do they specify "makefile" tag instead of "make"? [closed]
I see many questions on Stackoverflow with strange tag pickups. They have [makefile] tag but they don't have such tags as [make], [qmake], [gnumake] etc. It happens that there are about 200 of such ...
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Is it inappropriate to post long answers with sample illustrations?
I usually post long answers to questions with some illustrations of how to simulate the problem, where applicable, and possible option to fix it. My understanding of posting an answer is to make it ...
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What's the best way to post a tutorial?
I went looking for answers to a question I had, but didn't find what I was looking for. Now that I've found the answer myself, I'd like to share what I've learned.
What's the best way to do this, if ...
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We should encourage high quality organizational and "guide" style questions, rather than closing them
I just noticed that Git for beginners: The definitive practical guide was closed and locked just over a month ago with the note that such questions are no longer accepted by the community.
Is this ...
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Can we flag tutorial questions?
I was wondering if it's OK for me to flag questions regarding tutorials? IMHO, there is no need to ask questions about a tutorial on SO, they should be directed towards the provider of the tutorial, ...
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Will it be fine if I post 'for beginner' style tutorials/articles on SO?
I would just like to ask if it will be within the established guidelines here for me to post tutorials/articles on basic topics like parsing XML with Java, traversing the drive and so on which are ...
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Stack Overflow training guide - a video maybe?
Whilst trawling through the new review feature a common theme I see in posts are:
broken code formatting (PHP GET problem - no form $_GET data is present)
wall of code
I know this was suggested some ...
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Section for tutorials and guides [duplicate]
Many of the important things I have learned about programming best practices and security, have come from questions like this: Guide to Website Authentication. Can we have a way to aggregate all of ...
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